Prefigurative Legality

Book Review: Legality

Advertising Legality Recognition

As online marketing and advertising keep growing on the Internet, a large amount of advertisements are presented to consumers. How consumers, advertisers and the authorities identify false and overstated advertisements becomes a critical issue. In this paper, we address this problem, and propose various classification models to detect illegal advertisements. Illegal advertisement lists announce...

Legality and legitimacy of exporting democracy

The George W. Bush jr administration explicitly declared its aim to spread democracy militarily. Is such an intention legal under current international law, norms and institutions? If one proves it to be at odds with the criterion of legality – since it clearly contradicts one of the main pillars of the UN Charter, i.e. the principle of non-interference –, can it be justified with recourse to t...

Accountability, Legality and the Social Order

Legality and Legitimacy in International Order

Legality and Legitimacy in International Order T  NATO armed intervention over Kosovo was illegal under international law, but widely regarded as legitimate. Th e 2003 US invasion of Iraq was both illegal and illegitimate, though unilateral attempts were made to legitimize it, using the Kosovo precedent. Th e sanctions against Iraq, preceding the 2003 invasion, were legal, but seen by many ...